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Sierra 7 colores
Florentina Fischer
Painting - 120 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,962
I Keep Thinking This Is Over, This Is Not Over / Red Green Purple Blue
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,130
We All Live Under the Same Sky
Nick Vivian
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$3,182
Lumière du soir III
Agnès Tiollier
Painting - 81 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,924
Jacques-Prince Okoko - Format M
Arnaud Baumann
Photography - 90 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,570
Purple Emotive Canvas
Liana Ohanyan
Painting - 80 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$890
Children of the revolution
Thierry Corpet
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,457
Le mont sacré de l'Atlantique
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$84
Natural Flow Series n14. From the Natural Flow series
Rosario Briones
Painting - 104.9 x 87.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 41.3 x 34.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,600
There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall painting
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,540
Flight of the Bee
Lilith Tonakanyan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$5,000
Fight for your right
Sara Chelou
Painting - 97 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,018 $1,816
La pieuvre, le poulpe, le pouffre en argot sétois
Robert Combas
Painting - 150 x 96.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 38 x 1 inch
$134,532
Exceptional Sheep
Menashe Kadishman
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$7,600
Anthony and Cleopatra
Brian Bartlett
Painting - 90 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,591
Once There Was A Way
Brian Bartlett
Painting - 90 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,591
Spring sunset #4
Laura Dujoncquoy
Painting - 100 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,682 $1,513
Les détours imprévus
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0.4 inch
$538
Le cadeau de l'été
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0.4 inch
$538
Un après-midi au jardin
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0.4 inch
$538
Perception sensorielle
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0.4 inch
$538
Une certaine idée du bonheur
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 25 x 25 x 1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
$280
Quand l'été revient
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 25 x 25 x 1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
$280
Il est un temps pour tout
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 25 x 25 x 1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
$280
Quand les souvenirs s'en mêlent
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 25 x 25 x 4 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 1.6 inch
$280
Quand la douceur épouse la lumière
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 25 x 25 x 4 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 1.6 inch
$280
Le goût de la vie
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 25 x 25 x 4 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 1.6 inch
$280
Une histoire heureuse
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 20 x 20 x 4 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.6 inch
$202
Et si c'était pour nous deux
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 20 x 20 x 4 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.6 inch
$202
Comme un océan de couleurs
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 20 x 20 x 4 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.6 inch
$202
Balade à ma façon
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 20 x 20 x 4 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.6 inch
$202
Racines d'être
Christine Marie Nobre
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$639
Paysage intérieur
Christine Marie Nobre
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$639
Golden Pomegranate Harvest
Vlas Ayvazyan
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$600
Jardin des lumie?res Roses et tulipes 1
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 60 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,018
Jardin des lumie?res Roses et tulipes
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 30 x 20 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 7.9 x 1.2 inch
$897
Jardin des lumie?res Roses et Pierres 4
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 30 x 20 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 7.9 x 1.2 inch
$897
Jardin des lumie?res Roses et Pierres 3
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 30 x 20 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 7.9 x 1.2 inch
$897
Peinture 02-2023-17
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$1,009
Positive Energy M 1 / Oil
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 85 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 33.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,231
Shoreditch 1&2
Yoann Bonneville (YBA)
Painting - 82 x 43 x 4 cm Painting - 32.3 x 16.9 x 1.6 inch
$2,018
Surrogate Mother Abstract
James Chiew
Print - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Print - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$7,287
Colored artworks
The work of color is central in any artistic work. It is even one of the first tools of the artist. It is difficult to imagine a work that would exist without the working of color - even if it is the absence of color that the artist chooses to present.
Through the ages and artistic movements, the use and meaning attributed to color evolves, but the essence of color remains the same. Every artist must master the properties of color in order to control his composition. In the restoration of paintings, color even becomes a science, because it is necessary to know the different molecules to find the colors and mixtures originally used by the artist.
In the history of art, the importance of color fluctuates according to periods and geographical areas. During the Italian Renaissance, for example, there was a debate (called Paragone) between the authority of color versus drawing: according to the schools, it is the color, and not the line, that creates the emotion and visual power of a work of art. The colors thus take on an immense importance, and assume certain meanings: white symbolizes purity for example, and blue (systematically used to clothe the Virgin Mary) is associated with divinity. These symbols are not thought of randomly: the purple for example, is used since the Byzantine era to signify the highest rank of royalty. Unlike ochre, the purple pigment came from a specific shell, and was extremely difficult - and therefore rare, and expensive - to obtain.
More generally, colors can be divided into three categories: warm, cool, and neutral. As their name implies, these classes of colors give off an atmosphere that the painter can use to influence the emotion of his work. Baroque art, for example, manipulates the contrasts between warm and cold colors to capture the power of bodies. The play of light is exalted by the effects of color. For a long time, the traditional Western school of painting required painters to reproduce the colors of the environment around them. It was the Impressionists, in the 19th century, who explored other ways of seeing - and therefore of transcribing on canvas - their chromatic environment. By avoiding complex mixtures and painting spontaneously, in the open air, the Impressionists reinvented the use of color to reproduce reality.
It was not until abstract and subjective painting that art devoted itself to color as a subject. Mark Rothko, precursor of the Colorfield Painting movement and of abstract expressionism, sees in his paintings a living organism whose color is human and whose format is transcendent. Piet Mondrian, on the other hand, sought in his paintings to approach the very essence of nature through the purity of primary colors, to achieve abstraction. The founder of the Russian avant-garde movement of Suprematism, Kasimir Malevich, will disturb the senses of everyone with his work "White square on white background", in which the color is painted only for itself. Contemporary art, photography, collage, or pop art also use in their respective ways the resources of color, exploring indefinitely all its pluralities. As Picasso said, "When I have no blue, I use red."
Artsper writes art in color: discover below a great selection of works that honor color and its properties. What better way to brighten up an interior?